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The fragile holed stones Somerset and wherever else these people count as quango has now taken over the adminstrative role of
at Tregaseal. Picture by
Mike Anders,
‘South West’. Yet CSW intend to bury it deep within farming conservation subsidies of schemes such as
mikeanders@btinternet.com an artificial ‘culture’ of their own manufacture. We the highly successful environmentally sensitive area,
must prevent that from ever happening. a designation given to the Penwith Moors 23 years
Rampant English nationalism or supremacism has ago. This encouraged local farmers to operate in
created ‘English Heritage’, Sport ‘England’, ‘English’ traditional ways in order to conserve both the natural
Estates and so on, to operate on Celtic soil, knowing and historic landscapes. There was a 90 per cent
full well the distress, anger and indignation these take-up of this subsidised scheme among local
political titles cause among proudly Cornish people. farmers and it was, in all respects, an excellent
Now, we have another one whose current plan even scheme that benefitted everyone.
threatens to radically alter the entire character of the It has now been decide to phase out the
iconic Penwith Moors. environmentally sensitive areas, and replace them
In line with this political policy, the former Nature with something called the HEATH Project. The vast
Conservancy Council changed its name to ‘English’ majority of the farmers who benefitted from
Nature and, more recently, to Natural ‘England’. This environmentally sensitive area subsidies and grants
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